Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-09
AS OTHERS SEE US.
We had Rest go Abroad and Return to
Learn our Advantages---HOw Bust
ness Enterprises are Improving In
UsI

We had Rest go Abroad and Return to
Learn our Administration Bust
ness Enterprises are Improving In
Rock Island.
Said business man of another city,
who travels all over the northwest in the
prosecution of his business, to well
known citizen this morning, Rock ISL
and is the best city to buy real estate IN
of any city of my acquaintance. Property
is low, it has touched bed rock here,
and is now on the advance.
Rock Island has been enjoying a boom
for some time past if you but realize it. l
can remember when your factories were
not making money The glass factory was
sold few years ago because it could not
make expenses, and the corporation
wound up. 1t is now prosperous and
paying institution, and makes glass of
the best quality. The same can be said
of your stove works; they did not pay for
some time Now they are making money
for the proprietors, and better stove is
not made anywhere. Some time ago your
pillow factory was compelled to close up
because it could not make expenses;
this season it has been running early and
late, in fact it las a regular boom on"
Besides you have new institutions that
are booming; the Rock Island Building
and Loan association is doing a buiness
equal to large bank Its capital stock
has been increased lately. The new shear
works are growing in strength and prop
erty, and the new nickle works are maxi
ing money beyond all expectation. The
Mutual Manufacturers Insurance COM
pany of which Mr.. Ferguson is secretary
is doing ten times the amount of business
that people generally suppose it is doing,
and it is as sound AS any of the older
companies. and the new Sun Insurance
company has started out in manner that
has surprised its founders.
There is lots of room for the new
Loan association that is being started
here and it will prosper A poor man can
not do better than to invest in it. 1t will
save bis money which he would other
wise spend, and there are other enter
prises that are being formed that will
come to light in less than thirty
days. You NAV call it a boom or what
ever you please. but all of your older in
situations are Furnishing, and all of the
new ones without an exception are doing
business beyond the expectation of ans
of their founders aud they are realizing
more money out Of them than they dared
hope for"
This cannot SAY of the other towns
in my line of travel that are booming IN
the west | find some such institutions
in every one of them, and IN some OF
them good many that are sick, anC
eastern capital is looking elsewhere thar
in these towns for investment If it was
advertised and generally known tina
Rock Island institutions, both old ant
new, are so prosperous and that Rock
Island real estate can be had so reasona
BILE, it would surprise you to see the
of nanital hot vrnnld har
,, for investment within the next ninet'
DAYS. You need not wait for the nev
bridge to cross the Mississippi at tn
lower end of the city neither is it neces
=, sary to wait until the Hennepin cana
comes in or the Santa Fe road to be bui
but let your present advantages and pros
perity be generally known, and the ma
> tives' of Rock Island would be surprise
at the amount of money that would flow
here from eastern cities, for investment
and the numbers of people that woul
flock to this place and locate before suo'
flies.
Here is a picture of Rock Island {
viewed by an outsider. Why cannot OF
> own people see their city as others dc
1t is generally the case that the inhab
tants of a city are inclined to be egoti
teal and to overestimate its advantage
al if anything, 1t is not SO with Rock Is
ID and. On the contrary, it is an undspu'
ut ed fact that people who have lived her
for years do not realize how the aC
I. vantages they possess. Strangers wi
d come in some day-they are coming
w already, in fact--and improve Il
lg chances that people who have lived hel
I'd for years have permitted to slip by II
ut syndicate heretofore alluded to In IL
D. ARGUS for the erection of new house
% for which there is such an urgent d.
v mand, will he in position to do som,
in thing in short time, and then the CT
will boom with new buildings more tbs
ever before.